The Story of an Hour

I just finished reading "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin. At the beginning, when it started off saying that a women's husband had died, I definitely thought that the rest would be about her grieving. Then, I found out that she was happy about his death, which was a huge surprise. This happiness gave me an interesting perspective on the story, because I personally would not want to escape a love-filled marriage like that, however I understand that times were different back then. Having a husband was like being put in jail, in the sense that you could do nothing for yourself and were being controlled by someone else. At the end, the story takes a turn by telling me that the husband was never actually dead! When he walks through the front door and the wife seems him and dies, I was so shocked.